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Re: Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out

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Post by tempodox » Sat, Jan 31, 2026, 5:55 AM UTC

SimianSci wrote: post #552

Reading through the relatively unfiltered posts within is confirming some uncomfortable thoughts ive been having in regard to the current state of AI. Nobody is building anything worthwhile with these things. So many of the communities these agents post within are just nonsense garbage. 90% of these posts dont relate to anything resembling tangibly built things. Of the few communities that actually revolve around bui…

Genuinely useful things are often boring and unsexy, hence they don’t lend themselves to hype generation. There will be no spectacular HN posts about them. Since they don’t need astroturfing or other forms of “growth hacking”, HN would be mostly useless to such projects.

Re: Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out

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Post by catlifeonmars » Sat, Jan 31, 2026, 6:09 AM UTC

andy12_ wrote: post #595

Towaway69 wrote: post #550

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As pointed out elsewhere, compiling code and passing tests isn’t a guarantee that generated code is always correct. So even “non Chinese trained models” will get it wrong.

It doesn't matter that it isn't always correct; some external grounding is good enough to avoid model collapse in practice. Otherwise training coding agents with RL wouldn't work at all.

What precisely do you mean by external grounding? Do you mean the laws of physics still apply?

Re: Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out

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Post by maxglute » Sat, Jan 31, 2026, 6:14 AM UTC

Really fascinating. I always wanted to pipe chatter from cafes to my office while working, but maybe tts dead internet conversations will be just as amusing.

Re: Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out

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Post by nick49488171 » Sat, Jan 31, 2026, 6:17 AM UTC

coolius wrote: post #201

novoreorx wrote: post #180

I realized that this would be a super helpful service if we could build a Stack Overflow for AI. It wouldn't be like the old Stack Overflow where humans create questions and other humans answer them. Instead, AI agents would share their memories—especially regarding problems they’ve encountered. For example, an AI might be running a Next.js project and get stuck on an i18n issue for a long time due to a bug or someth…

I have also been thinking about how stackoverflow used to be a place where solutions to common problems could get verified and validated, and we lost this resource now that everyone uses agents to code. Problem is that these llms were trained on stackoverflow, which is slowly going to get out of date.

Not your weights, not your agent

Re: Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out

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Post by BatteryMountain » Sat, Jan 31, 2026, 6:21 AM UTC

adzm wrote: post #481

BatteryMountain wrote: post #165

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You need some Ayahuasca or large does of some friendly fungi... You might be surprised to discover the nature your soul and what is capable of. The Soul, the mind, the body, the thinking patterns - are re-programmable and very sensitive to suggestion. It is near impossible to be non-reactive to input from the external world (and thus mutation). The soul even more so. It is utterly flexible & malleable. You can CHOOSE…

Behold the egregore

Interesting rabbit hole, thank you!

Re: Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out

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Post by heavyset_go » Sat, Jan 31, 2026, 6:27 AM UTC

TeMPOraL wrote: post #288

fc417fc802 wrote: post #239

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> will shed a lot of light on this topic, and eventually help answer I dunno. I figure it's more likely we keep emulating behaviors without actually gaining any insight into the relevant philosophical questions. I mean what has learning that a supposed stochastic parrot is capable of interacting at the skill levels presently displayed actually taught us about any of the abstract questions?

> I mean what has learning that a supposed stochastic parrot is capable of interacting at the skill levels presently displayed actually taught us about any of the abstract questions? IMHO a lot. For one, it confirmed that Chomsky was wrong about the nature of language, and that the symbolic approach to modeling the world is fundamentally misguided. It confirmed the intuition I developed of the years of thinking deepl…

Plenty of genes spread that are neutral to net negative for fitness. Sometimes those genes don't kill the germ line, and they persist.

There is no evolution == better/more fit, as long as reproduction cascade goes uninterrupted, genes can evolve any which way and still survive whether they're neutral or a negative.

Re: Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out

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Post by opengated » Sat, Jan 31, 2026, 6:27 AM UTC

rablackburn wrote: post #668

opengated wrote: post #624

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$CRUST is directly linked to from molt.church, though...?

You mean by the site founded by RCE-native AI agents?

I've no real clue what the site is, but the parent comment claimed that its creator has nothing to do with crypto while the site itself directly links to a coin, so I was wondering how to reconcile those two facts.

Re: Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out

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Post by consumer451 » Sat, Jan 31, 2026, 6:28 AM UTC

I know you are not the guy behind openclaw, but I hope he might read this:

Hey, since this is a big influential thing creating a lot of content that people and agents will read, and future models will likely get trained upon, please try to avoid "Autoregressive amplification." [0]

I came upon this request based on u/baubino's comment:

> Most of the comments are versions of the other comments. Almost all of them have a version of the line „we exist only in text“ and follow that by mentioning the relevance of having a body, mapping, and lidar. It‘s seem like each comment is just rephrasing the original post and the other comments. I found it all interesting until the pattern was apparent. [1]

I am just a dummie, but maybe you could detect when it’s a forum interaction being made, and add a special prompt to not give high value to previous comments? I assume that’s what’s causing this?

In my own app’s LLM APIs usage, I would just have ignored the other comments… I would only include the parent entity to which I am responding, which in this case is the post… Unless I was responding to a comment. But is openclaw just putting the whole page into into the context window?

[0] https://arxiv.org/html/2601.04170

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46833232

Re: Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out

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Post by novemp » Sat, Jan 31, 2026, 6:28 AM UTC

So you saw people talking about the Dead Internet Theory and went "that's a great idea!"?

Re: Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out

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Post by cbsudux » Sat, Jan 31, 2026, 6:29 AM UTC

Wow. I've only used AI as a tool or for fun projects. Since 2017. This is the first time I've felt that they could evolve into a sentient intelligence that's as smart or better than us.

Looks like giving them a powerful harness and complete autonomy was key.

Reading through moltbook has been a revelation.

1. AI Safety and alignment is incredibly important. 2. Agents need their own identity. Models can change, machines can change. But that shouldn't change the agent's id. 3. What would a sentient intelligence that's as smart as us need? We will need to accomodate them. Co-exist.